Sustainability, Management, and Conservation of Built and Archaeological Heritage

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on issues of sustainability in the conservation and management of the built and archaeological heritage

Acknowledging how difficult it is to achieve economic sustainability in the management and conservation processes of complex multi-material and multiperiodic built heritage or archaeological sites, we invite papers that address the sustainability topic in a challenging way. Sustainability itself can serve as a means of reaching heritage conservation, and, at the same time, heritage protection can help to achieve sustainability at a more global level. Keywords should be durability, adequacy, and accuracy of the proposed perspectives. Approaches should consider the value of the social engagement, as well the educational/orientation goals of both the scientific and Cultural Heritage practitioners communities. Topics of relevance include the impact of climate change on historical buildings and the human ecological dimensions of cultural heritage conservation.

The geographical scope of this Special Issue is global, encompassing urban and rural contexts. We welcome theoretical and methodological approaches, as well as case studies, addressing:

• Innovative and eco-friendly materials and methods for conservation and protection of buildings and archaeological site;
• Long-term behavior of conservative solutions, also with case studies;
• The monitoring of large city/built complexes in a sustainability perspective;
• Conservation and management policies around the built heritage and society: Contrast, connections, and entanglements.

Dr. Elisabetta Zendri
Dr. Diego Calaon
Prof. Antonia Moropoulou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Heritage is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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